Darlena Subashi

​Darlena litigates patent disputes involving complex technologies, including telecommunications and consumer and commercial electronics. She represents clients in district courts, the International Trade Commission, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the Federal Circuit.

Darlena has litigated patent infringement cases involving a wide variety of technologies, including telecommunications, cellular standards, LEDs, optics, drilling rig systems, medical devices, and cable television systems.  She has extensive experience in all aspects of litigation for both defendants and plaintiffs, including pre-suit diligence, discovery, oral argument, including at Markman hearings and pre-trial conferences, taking and defending depositions of fact and expert witnesses, drafting dispositive motions, and trial.

Darlena previously served as Counsel in the IP Litigation Group at Alston & Bird LLP. Darlena simultaneously obtained her law degree and master of science in electrical and computer engineering from Duke University. After law school, she clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
 
Darlena’s representative matters include:

• Defended AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Ericsson, and Nokia in a consolidated three-patent district court case in the Eastern District of Texas involving 4G and 5G technologies.
• Obtained a complete defense verdict for Nokia in a jury trial in an Eastern District of Texas matter asserting infringement of four routing technology patents, including obtaining summary judgment of noninfringement as to one of the asserted patents.
• Represented CommScope as the defendant in a 13-patent litigation in the Eastern District of Texas involving DSL technology. 
• Defended Ericsson as the respondent against complainant Apple in an ITC investigation concerning 5G technology. 
• Represented a commercial and consumer lighting company in two co-pending district court litigations in the Eastern District of New York and the Western District of Texas involving LED technologies. 
• Obtained a complete dismissal of a declaratory judgment action in the District of Massachusetts seeking a declaration of noninfringement as to 18 patents in a dispute between companies in the commercial and consumer lighting industry.
• Represented Verizon as a defendant in a three-patent litigation in the Eastern District of Texas involving mobile telecommunications technology related to cellular handover and emulators. 
• Defended Verizon, Charter, and Nokia in a consolidated district court litigation in the Western District of Texas relating to direct sequence, spread spectrum signals.
• Represented Verizon as a defendant in a 10-patent district court litigation in the Eastern District of Texas relating to base station antenna design. 
• Represented Verizon as a defendant in a 27-patent district court litigation in the Eastern District of Texas relating to the radio interface in mobile telecommunications networks. 
• Obtained a complete defense win for Nokia as a respondent in an ITC investigation relating to optical data transmission in subsea wavelength division-multiplexed (WDM) systems.